Germaine de Staël

Bibliography

J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël (1958, reissued 1981), is an excellent English-language introduction to Staëlian studies. Renee Winegarten, Mme. de Staël (1985), places the writer in her historical context and assesses her works. Madelyn Gutwirth, Madame de Staël, Novelist: The Emergence of the Artist as Woman (1978), thoughtfully and lucidly examines the impact of the writer’s femaleness on her works as well as on her critics. Charlotte Hogsett, The Literary Existence of Germaine de Staël (1987), traces the development of her style.